Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Tyranny

• Hay situaciones históricas en las que negarse a defender la herencia de una civilización, por imperfecta que sea, contra la tiranía y la agresión puede tener consecuencias aún peores que la guerra.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Civilization, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1967). “Love and justice: selections from the shorter writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”

• Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Art, Ambition, Two

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. 27 de abril de 1958.

• No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Fate, Alternatives, Accepting

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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